Pith Number

pith:GN2N3EG2

pith:1999:GN2N3EG2A4BE2GMKML3OHBCZLV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Binary Mole

Joel M. Williams (JMC Williams Consultants, Los Alamos, NM)

arxiv:physics/9904016 v1 · 1999-04-09 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GN2N3EG2A4BE2GMKML3OHBCZLV}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:15.482333Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3374dd90da07024d198a62f6e384595d4ca3e04f10ffae9d34a6f7e9aa9e92b2

Aliases

arxiv: physics/9904016 · arxiv_version: physics/9904016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9904016 · pith_short_12: GN2N3EG2A4BE · pith_short_16: GN2N3EG2A4BE2GMK · pith_short_8: GN2N3EG2

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GN2N3EG2A4BE2GMKML3OHBCZLV \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 3374dd90da07024d198a62f6e384595d4ca3e04f10ffae9d34a6f7e9aa9e92b2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a4e6bef0b6e4455ba38cce9e8aa084b7b55c49a282d6b6e062fbf39940e89f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-04-09T13:53:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f100922f39b993addac61e5f48ecf168961911eff5d11dd151219de00775d66b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/9904016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}